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Writers:
Jane Cowl (play) and
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Release Date:
October 1941 (USA) more
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Jeanette MacDonald and husband Gene Raymond in their only screen collaboration! Their eyes met...and they knew they were meant for each other!
Plot:
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean... more | add synopsis
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Old-fashioned yarn in superb technicolor...sentimental tear-jerker... more (8 total)

Cast

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Jeanette MacDonald ... Kathleen / Moonyean Clare
Brian Aherne ... Sir John Carteret
Gene Raymond ... Kenneth 'Ken' Wayne / Jeremy 'Jerry' Wayne
Ian Hunter ... Reverend Owen Harding
Frances Robinson ... Ellen, John's Housekeeper
Patrick O'Moore ... Willie Ainley
Eric Lonsdale ... Charles, Kenneth's Batman
Jackie Horner ... Kathleen, as a Child
David Clyde ... Sexton
Frances Carson ... Lady Denham, a Dowager
Ruth Rickaby ... Woman with Lady Denham
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Runtime:
100 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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The original play opened in New York on 30 December 1919 and ran for 175 performances. Authors Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin used a single pseudonym (Allan Langdon Martin) as the author, but Cowl starred in the play under her real name. Also in the play were Charlotte Granville and Henry Stephenson. more
Quotes:
Kenneth: There's only one thing missing from this picnic. Don't you have any ants in England?
Kathleen: I have some in Ireland, but I never hear from them.
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Version of Smilin' Through (1932) more
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Old-fashioned yarn in superb technicolor...sentimental tear-jerker..., 16 April 2001
Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond (married in real-life) only made one film together and both were at the peak of their careers when they co-starred with Brian Aherne in this handsome remake of the older Leslie Howard-Norma Shearer tale. Brian Aherne narrates some of the story in flashback to a time when he was about to wed a young woman who was killed at the altar by a jealous suitor. He then tries to dissuade Jeanette from marrying a man who is the son of that suitor. Jeanette plays the dual role of the present-day woman and the young woman her uncle was about to wed. Jeanette is given several charming songs to sing (including 'The Kerry Dance') and has never looked more beautiful. It tends to become a bit too sentimental--an old-fashioned valentine with a candy-box look to the technicolor--but for fans of the singer this is definitely one worth viewing. Nice performance by Aherne in age make-up as the elderly uncle. Raymond, too, is seen to advantage. Pleasant lightweight entertainment, if a bit dated in style.

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